Charles Sumner: “If you reject the pending measure, you voluntarily refuse to carry…”

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If you reject the pending measure, you voluntarily refuse to carry forward that great act of Emancipation which you have already sanctioned.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner warns that rejecting the measure would undermine the act of emancipation.

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Charles Sumner: “If you reject the pending measure, you voluntarily refuse to carry forward that great act of Emancipation which you have…”